Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1887-12-16
Prominent Denizens of the National
Capital Turn Their Attention
! to The Irish Cause.
Elaborate Entertainment rendered to
Sir Thomas Grafton Esmonde
and Arthur O'COnnell.
Very DiscOuraging Interview With
Delegate clifford on the Quest
ion of Dak0ta's Admission.
THE HOME RULERS.


THE HOME RULERS.
A FITTING RECEPTION.
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. - Sir Thomas
Henry Grattan Esmonde and Arthur
O'Connor, leaders of the Irish home rule
cause in the English parliament, arrived
in this city this afternoon, escorted by a
committee of Washington Irish societies
who had gone to Baltimore to meet them.
In the evening they were rendered a recep-
ton by the Irish societies and were con-
Quoted to the Masonic temple. in which the
reception was held, by an escort headed by
the Third artillery band and consisting of
the Union Veteran corps, the Columbia
rifles, the Emmett guards, the Continen-
tails, the Knights of Columbkill and the
Catholic Knights of America.
THE EVENING MEETING.
The hall of the temple was brilliantly il
Illuminated and decorated with American
and Irish flags, while such inscription as
Scotland, Wales and Ireland Demand
Home Rule, american Sympathy is With
Ireland, "Coercion is an Outrage on the
Spirit Of Human Liberty, columbia
Greets Gladstone and Parnelp' ornamented
the stage and walls. Nearly every seat in
the body Of the hall was occupied. 1t was
nearly $50 when the distinguished guests
arrived and were escorted to seats upon
the platform, where large number of
senators and representatives were present
| to do them honor. Among them we're the
following: Senators Sherman, Palmer and
Hawley, Representatives Collins, Bland,
Herbert, 0athwaite, Foran, Lawler,
Grain, Kennedy, Parker, Nutting, J. D:
Taylor, Yost, Brown of Ohio and Fred
Douglass. Mr.. Morris Murphy, chairman
Of the committee of arrangements, called
the meeting to order and said that owing
to the unavoidable absence Of Senator In
gals. who @ was to preside, the first business
tas ssfen of Re e 'han Mssoa
proposed the name of Senator Sber.
man and he was elected amid
great cheering. Senator Sherman had
just begun speaking when Senator In
gals arrived and was escorted to the
platform. Senator Sherman said on ap-
pearing here tonight he was bound to say
that he was not an Irishman, but the
trouble was that his ancestors had come to
this country so many years ago that it was
absolutely inmate, ial whether they were
Irish, English, Scotch or Welsh. He knew
one thing-he was an American, and as
an American, feeling himself free to speak
not only, Of matters concerning our ma,
friendly, nations. he took pleasure in
saying that he believed he spoke the gen.
eral voice Of the people of the United
States in every part Of the union when he
said to the distinguished guests that the
sympathy of America went forth fully and
| hno rfi i1r, in, fha or l,nf
might have home rule in Ireland to the
full extent demanded by Parnell and
| Gladstone.
| SENATOR INGALLS,,
after the applause with which he was
greeted had subsidized, said two illustrious
Irish members Of the British parliament
have crossed the ocean to tell the story of
the wrongs of Ireland. They are here for
the purpose, as he understood, of ascer-
tanning the sentiments Of the American
people upon this great question which is
now occupying the attention of men all
over the civilized world; for the purpose of
examination whether or not it is true, as
the tories of Great Britain have SAID, that
the sentiments of the great mass OF the
American people are not with Ireland in
| her struggle for home rule and cOnStltu-
tlCnal liberty, but that all these move
ments are only the conditions of partisan
demagogues and of obscure politicians for
! the purpose of catching the Irish votes.
ave have assembled this evening in the
shadow of the national capitol for the pur-
pose of saying. so far as can voice the
sentiments of the assemblage, that the
abuse of Ireland is the cause of America;
that in deeper and wider sense it is not
only the cause of Ireland, but of humanity
| itself. We have assembled for the purpose
of learning from'these two illustriOus rep
resentatives of Irish sentiment what has
been the result of
SEVEN CENTURIES OF OPPRESSION
of the Irish people by the governing classes
Of Great Britain" and, he said, were he a
still more obscure politician than he was,
he should not hesitate to say if we are
called upon to choose between expressing
our sympathies for Great Britain or for
Ireland in this contest no American citizen
will hesitate as to what his preference shall
be. He said that the Irish representatives
of home rule are not here to interfere with
the unity of the British empire, but Great
Britain should not forget that there is moth
| ing SO dangerous and 80 Improbable as in
| justice. Great Britain should not forget
that 100000 of people determined to be
| free can never be enslaved. Great Britain
should not forget that 100000 citizens In
/ the thirteen colonies fevOlted and achieved
| their independence under far less proy0ca-
| ton than the 100000 of Irish people have
J endured for centuries, He did not desire